The Beatles produced a promotional film clip for "Strawberry Fields Forever", which served as an early example of what became known as a music video. The film features reverse film effects,... See full summary »

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Imagine is a cinematic collage of color, sound, dream and reality. Produced and directed by John and Yoko and including numerous friends and collaborators like George Harrison, Fred Astaire, Andy Warhol, Dick Cavett, Jack Palance and Jonas Mekas. The music film features a different visual treatment for every song, and follows John and Yoko during the recording sessions for the Imagine album in both the UK and New York, as they co-produced the record with Phil Spector. The 2018 re-released Imagine movie has been restored frame-by-frame, from the original reels with the audio remix by triple GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer, Paul Hicks. It is accompanied by 15 minutes of never-before-seen extras including studio footage of John and his band (including George Harrison, Nicky Hopkins from the Rolling Stones, Alan White from Yes and Klaus Voormann) performing "How Do You Sleep?" and "Oh My Love" in a specially created Dolby Atmos surround sound "raw studio" mix that would put you in the ...

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Although the "Imagine" music video has shown up in many places since, the other videos in this film have rarely been seen outside of this film although the footage from them has usually been made up to be other Lennon videos in compilations such as Lennon Legend. See more »

Alternate Versions

The current video version is actually a shortened version of the original feature length film. Here are the changes:

Mind Train has been completely edited out.

Yoko's Whisper Piece, which originally came after Mind Train, has been deleted.

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You might be disappointed if you think you will learn a lot about the "Imagine" album recording while watching this flick.It's experimental,as most of Lennon's and Ono's shorts were (remember:"self-portrait" "erection" "fly")."Imagine" is more of the same.All the tracks of the famous album (performed as on the record) provide the soundtrack ,with a "bonus" of two Ono songs ,including her lovely" Mrs Lennon" (which was obviously influenced by her husband's style).

What about the plot?There is none.What are they talking about? They do not speak ,except for the last minutes when they utter two words ,you know what I mean (see "the Wedding album").They wander aimlessly along their desirable property,go boating on the river,John does his number two,he plays chess with his wife -the sequence is a bit scary ,and a Yoko experimental cut makes your hair stand on end-.And while the notorious "how do you sleep?" is heard ,you can see grimacing masks on the walls :what do you suppose THAT means?Cameos by George Harrison,Fred Astaire and Jack Palance.No MacCartney is not among the special guests ,not even in the ominous "how do you sleep?" sequence.

Filmed during the last year of the Lennons in England.Actually,the most important is not in the movie:the legend only matters ,this legend which turned "imagine "the song into what should be the worldwide anthem to replace all our obsolete fusty national anthems.

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